The DT228 BSc in Computer Science programme is a four year, full time, modular, honours degree programme in Computer Science offered by the Dublin Institute of Technology, School of Computing based in Kevin Street, Dublin 8. It aims to provide graduates with a comprehensive knowledge and understanding of computer science as well as practical problem solving and software engineering skills and experience in a relevant industrial setting.
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Kevin Street Campus |
Pool in Kevin Street |
The primary aim of the programme is to produce graduates with the necessary knowledge and skills to perform as ICT practitioners in a broad range of commercial, industrial and public sector environments. Graduates of this programme will be eligible for careers in the ICT industry in such roles as programmers, analysts, system support and administration, database management or any role that involves the design and implementation of software or the management of organisational technology infrastructure.
A secondary aim of the programme is to allow students to specialise in a particular area of ICT. Students who successfully complete the early years of the course will have a thorough grounding in the fundamentals of computer science, which will lead to their focussing on the development of complete solutions in the latter years. Students in the later years of the course have the opportunity to specialise in specific areas of computer science and software engineering. The programme offers 4 streams of specialisation to the students. Details on the specialisation streams in available under the Programme Structure.
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DIT wins 2nd place at Robocode 2006 |
Kevin Street Library |
The course is strongly oriented towards the provision of practical skills, with students gaining knowledge and experience of a range of tools, techniques, technologies and procedures employed by industry in the ICT sector, coupled with a strong theoretical appreciation and understanding of computer science and software engineering. Graduates will be adaptive to changing environments, both technical and organisational. Key to this is an ability to learn independently, and build upon fundamental and transferable skills acquired during the programme, as well as possessing the skills necessary to incorporate feedback and experience from prior work. Students on the programme have the opportunity of taking work placement in an IT-related company for a period of six months.
This programme has been franchised to the Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT), one of China's top ten third level institutions. HIT considers the industry-oriented education practices of this programme as key to the link between business and education.
"...we looked at DIT and found an outstanding example of industry-related education from which we could learn..."
A quote from Prof Xu Xiaofei, Assistant Dean at Harbin Institute of Technology's School of Software.
For more information see Irish Times article "Why is DIT big news in China?" Fintan O'Toole, Sept 16th 2006.